Life Quotes by Alice Hoffman

“The best way to die is when you're living.”

— Alice Hoffman

“I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.”

— Alice Hoffman

“In my family, a book can be a life raft.”

— Alice Hoffman

The best way to die is when your living

— Alice Hoffman

Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

— Alice Hoffman

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to…

— Alice Hoffman

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

— Alice Hoffman

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one…

— Alice Hoffman

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the…

— Alice Hoffman

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than…

— Alice Hoffman

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

— Alice Hoffman

“What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was…

— Alice Hoffman

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

— Alice Hoffman

“when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it’s…

— Alice Hoffman

It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than…

— Alice Hoffman

“I thought perhaps I had been wrong, too quick to judge the essence of a being by its appearance, still not fully…

— Alice Hoffman

“The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel of Death had been created on…

— Alice Hoffman

“Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for…

— Alice Hoffman

“Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have…

— Alice Hoffman

“As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking…

— Alice Hoffman

“When darkness fell, he told me to close my eyes and dream, for in my dreams I would find another world, and…

— Alice Hoffman

“All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly…

— Alice Hoffman

“Amazing where your life can deposit you before you know it. One, two, three, and you're on a completely different road than…

— Alice Hoffman

“Never look back, that's what she's told herself. Don't think about swans or being alone in the dark. Don't think of storms,…

— Alice Hoffman

In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way…

— Alice Hoffman

“When Juliet came flying down the hallway, Stella didn't recognize her friend. Juliet hadn't bothered with makeup; she was wearing a nightgown…

— Alice Hoffman

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next…

— Alice Hoffman

How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it…

— Alice Hoffman

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we…

— Alice Hoffman

“Blue must be worn for protection. Moonstones were useful in connecting with the living, topaz to contact the dead. Copper, sacred to…

— Alice Hoffman

“What’s done cannot be undone. What’s set into motion takes on a life of its own.”

— Alice Hoffman

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your…

— Alice Hoffman

“It’s for your own good,” she said tenderly. “All I want for you is a normal life.” “Mother,” Franny sighed. “What makes…

— Alice Hoffman

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in…

— Alice Hoffman

“If the Wolfman had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about”

— Alice Hoffman

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

— Alice Hoffman

“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change…

— Alice Hoffman

“This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is…

— Alice Hoffman

“Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn’t really your own, and you’ve just sort of let things happen to…

— Alice Hoffman

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew…

— Alice Hoffman